Happy Late Fourth of July

Happy belated fourth my audience. I hope you had a great day of remembering what this country and it's servants have been through to let you be able to live the way you live. I hope you celebrated in the classic American tradition through the consumption of burgers and hotdogs, with beer to drink (the 4th is the highest day of alcohol consumption....really reflects what our culture is all about), the seeing of fireworks, and just having a good time even though half of this country doesn't even realize what happened yesterday nor the severity of the situation. Our founding fathers committed high treason, which would have resulted in hanging, having their entrails cut out and burned and other assorted punishments. Our most patriotic of figures were actually the most treacherous of traitors. Anyways, thanks dudes and every person who has served this country, for putting your lives on the line so I can live in the best country in the world. I had to work my 10 hours shift, but at least I got to hear some of the booms from the fireworks. Lets me know there is life outside of Wendys.

The hippies in the top left hand corner is Fleetwood Mac; the group I'm in the music craving for and the group I've been listening to non-stop these past 3 days. They're an interesting bunch, but first introductions. It goes from left to right, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks. I didn't memorize the names, I looked them up. They actually started in London in July of 1967. Their has been so many change ups of band members it would take forever to list them all. But essentially the members you see in the picture are the members known as Fleetwood Mac making the band extremely popular and famous in between 1975-1987. They have sold over 100 million copies of their albums making them part of the "list of best-selling artist". After several band break ups and re-formations the band moved to California searching for a replacement to one of their lead singers who had left the band. Lo and behold they stumble upon Stevie Nicks and the band starts to become popular (1975). The band hits huge success with songs like Over My Head, Rhiannon, Say You Love Me, and Landslide. Several years later, on a different album, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Don't Stop, You Make Loving Fun, Gold Dust Woman, and The Chain were created and produced top spots on song charts across America. Several other albums were created in between their success years of 1975-1987 including Mirage and Tango in the Night. Several of my favorite songs a included in these ablums. Their music genre started off as blues to blues rock to rock which was when they started to gaining success. Nowadays the band is still together but not really producing anything although they did just release another ablum about 3 years ago.

So how did I start liking them even though their main fan base is about 30-40 years older than me? My Dad. Whenever the family went on road trips (usually to Florida) or visit our grandparents or beach trips or whenever we got in the car to go somewhere far, he would listen to them. These songs would always produce childhood memories and fun times we the family had. So thanks Dad, for getting me hooked on Fleetwood. Whose upbeat songs and tempos I throughly enjoy.